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There are nearly 7,000 gun shops along the southern U.S. border, about three for every mile. They sell thousands of hand grenades, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, AK-47s, and "cop killer" guns and bullets that cut through Kevlar body armor. The weapons quickly flow south, again with barely a nod from U.S. Border Patrol.
Shannon O'Neil is either lying or an incompetent journalist (and I use the word loosely). Contact her at soneil@cfr.org or call her office at 212-434-9772.
via David Codrea
